Coarsened

The driver's voice was soft and high, a coarsened tenor, not unpleasant, reasonable even. ❋ David Ackley (2011)

Susan Rothenberg's recent paintings of animals and human heads and limbs, embedded or floating in coarsened, chicken-scratched fields of single-colored grounds, are compelling for their mix of delicacy, big scale and rough-hewn expressionism. ❋ Lance Esplund (2011)

But some are finding that new types of Lenten fasting might serve a useful purpose in a world coarsened by electronic media. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Rubenfeld brings back the stars of his earlier bestseller, "The Interpretation of Murder": Jimmy Littlemore, still the cleanest cop in New York; and Dr. Stratham Younger, older and a bit coarsened after tending to the wounded in Europe during World War I. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As the debate coarsened, thanks mainly to Dobbs, then the center ground disappeared, ❋ Niall O (2010)

In a tale that also relies on face-recognition gizmos—they're deployed as casually as dental floss—the most readily recognizable face belongs to the star, whose features have matured and coarsened with the passage of time. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

Like the '60s, Zen is hip but still innocent in a way, not yet coarsened or jaded. ❋ Nancy DeWolf Smith (2011)

Your hair stands on end, so many matchsticks on a face coarsened by self-abuse. ❋ Mark Kerstetter (2011)

You'll probably hear a lot about how Beck coarsened the political debate and how his words may or may not have incited violence, but I think the wreckage is a lot more substantive, to actual policies that affect Americans every day. ❋ Will Bunch (2011)

If he answers NO, then it is shown that illicit encounters have coarsened his psychology to the point that he shows no empathy, even for his own children. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You coarsened the political discourse and you are now reaping what you have sown. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When the ability to read is finally so coarsened that even Peyton Place is too much for the "general" reader, the "book industry" will of course collapse. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One cannot coarsen what has ALREADY been coarsened by the left. .nt ❋ Unknown (2009)

Britain gave him BBC Scotland's headquarters in Glasgow, where he was appointed amid grandiose claims about the BBC's Medici-like patronage of architecture, only to be pushed to the side in favour of "executive architects" and see a coarsened version of his design built. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This Hamlet, the reasonable man in a violent, irrational world, seems contaminated and coarsened by Claudius's Elsinore: he shrugs off the deaths of Polonius and his old student friends with a casualness that was not initially part of his character. ❋ Michael Billington (2010)